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'The body was completely lifeless. The driver looked really shaken up. He was just sitting at the side of the road with police officers.'

London Assembly Green Party member Darren Johnson said there had been six cyclists killed or seriously injured at the junction between 2008 and 2012.

He added that Ludgate Circus had featured on Transport for London's original list of 100 junctions which it planned to overhaul following safety concerns, but that it had not featured on a revised list of 33 junctions where work would be carried out.

Campaigners say the junction is a known blackspot and that six cyclist have been killed there since 2008. There were plans to improve safety for cyclists at the junction, but these have since been scrapped

Mr Johnson said London mayor Boris Johnson 'has to show some leadership and take responsibility for getting London's road network fit for cycling'.

He went on: 'It is terrible to think that we have to endure another decade of preventable casualties at this junction and many others which have been dropped from the mayor's list, because of the lack of money.'

Last autumn six cyclists were killed on London's roads in just two weeks leading to calls for more money to be invested in cycle lanes and safety measures.

At the time, former Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman asked the London Mayor to look at introducing a similar system ot Paris where heavy good vehicles are banned from the roads during peak hours.

Out of 14 cyclists killed last year in London, nine were involved in accidents with HGVs.

At least two cyclists have died as a result of accidents in London this year. Bus depot manager Kevin Lane was killed in Woodford Green in February and retired teacher Michael Mason died in hospital last month, two weeks after an accident.